[PATCH] More consistent help command in wpa_cli

akater nuclearspace at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 19:21:49 EDT 2020


Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> writes:

> Even though I'm not promoting automatic parsing of this, the proposed
> changes here seem to be reasonable. However, I would need to get a patch
> with the Signed-off-by: line in the commit message as described in the
> CONTRIBUTIONS file before I can consider applying this.

Thank you.  Done, patch attached.  hostapd_cli is patched similarly if
you want it.

> I'm not sure I'd consider wpa_cli help output as something that would be
> suitable for automatic parsing. That format is subject to change without
> notice and may break such uses.

That is clear.  It looks acceptable for my use case so far.  If anything
happens, I'll need those docstrings and arguments anyway.

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